The former head of Moscow’s Gogol Center theater has been detained
by police as part of an ongoing fraud investigation.
Alexei Malobrodsky, who led the Gogol Center between February 2013 and March 2015, was arrested on Monday night.
Malobrodsky was reportedly first summoned as a witness by
Moscow’s Investigative Committee as part of an ongoing embezzlement case which saw
the theater’s artistic director Kirill Serebrennikov detained in May.
Officials then ruled that the former director had become a formal
suspect in the case, an unnamed source toldRussia’s Interfax news agency.